Don’t Punch People in the Junk

The author’s youngest chlld.

Don’t Punch People in the Junk is a funny parenting book that explores the challenges and rewards of raising kids through many of the statements adults never anticipate that they would need to say out loud to another person.

When the author’s youngest child punched two kids in the junk within an 18-hour period, she questioned whether she could have done anything to prevent it. To be honest, she hadn’t thought to tell her children directly not to punch people in the junk. It wasn’t a message that she imagined she would have to state with the straightforwardness of instructions like, “Don’t talk with your mouth full.”

Although many of the statements and lessons in this book seem like common sense, there may be several that you have already said or will someday say in the indeterminate future, all with the general air of amazement that you even need to utter the words out loud to another human being. Many of these lessons involve statements that the author never dreamed she would have to state directly to her children.